UConn IRISH STUDIES (Spring 2018)
COLUM McCANN, Gerson Irish Reader 2018
April 10, 7:00pm, Alumni Center
New York-resident Colum McCann, one of Ireland’s most internationally prominent contemporary fiction writers, will deliver the 20th-anniversary Gerson Irish Reading, the culmination of a 2-day Narrative 4 event in which he will participate. N4 details + registration here. Gerson queries: mary.burke@uconn.edu; N4: brendan.kane@uconn.edu /dana.miranda@uconn.edu
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GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE: “Emerging Voices in Irish Studies”
March 3, 10:00-4:00pm, Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford CT. Organized by the Irish Studies Alliance. Keynote by Joseph Lennon, Emily C. Riley Director of the Center for Irish Studies, Villanova University. Queries: uconn.irishstudiesalliance@gmail.com or mollie.kervick@uconn.edu
RECLAIMING a 1930s PLAYWRIGHT, 11:00am, Mar. 20 & 22, both AUST 102
Dublin’s Abbey staged six plays by Teresa Deevy in the 1930s, work forgotten until Jonathan Bank, artistic director of NYC’s MINT Theatre, revived Deevy. A recording of MINT’s recent Deevy productions to be screened at 11am on 3/20. Follow-up talk at 11am on 3/22 by Deevy scholar and speaker at MINT’s 2017 Deevy public events, TARA HARNEY-MAHAJAN
CORMAC O’MALLEY on ERNIE O’MALLEY, 12.30pm, April 3, BUSN 204
A talk on Ernie O’Malley’s classic memoir on the Irish war of independence (1919-21), On Another Man’s Wound (1936),
written while O’Malley was living in New Mexico and New York. Cormac has extensively edited his father’s work.
COLM TÓIBíN, 1:00pm, April 5, Multipurpose Rm, Waterbury campus
Reading by Colm Tóibín, one of Ireland’s greatest living writers and the current Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia. Register in advance: 203-236-9924 or 203-236-9925 or by email: Osher@uconn.edu. Queries: rachael.lynch@uconn.edu
All events FREE
mary.burke@uconn.edu for details, unless noted otherwise
SPRING 2018